line length

[David C Lawrence]

In <19546 at adm.BRL.MIL> mchinni at pica.army.mil (Michael J. Chinni) writes:
MJC> On all UNIX systems I have seen, there is a command called "fold"
MJC> which will do this for you (assuming you want each 132char. line
MJC> to become a 80char. line and a 52 char. line).  If you just want
MJC> to throw away the extra 52 characters, try "cut -c1-80".

Better yet, use colrm.  When you want to just take out columns from a
line, "colrm START [&optional END]" is faster that cut; the difference
is especially noticeable in loops.  The only thing I use cut for is
field operations.

Dave
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